The purpose of Lot 2 (IPA CP Exercise Programme) is to design, prepare, conduct and evaluate two regional exercises, and arrange the participation of the partner countrie's teams in the Mechanism exercises.

General objectives of the IPA Civil Protection Exercise Programme

Strengthen preparedness and intervention capability of the partner countries
Exercise alerting, mobilizing and dispatching the partner countries' civil protection intervention and expert teams
Exercise cooperation within the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, including through the Monitoring and Information Centre
Practice the work in an international rescue operation and collaboration

Participation of the candidate and potential candidate countries’ teams, experts and observers in EU exercises
The partner countries will also have the possibility to participate in the Community Civil Protection Mechanism exercises, according to the possibilities provided by the organizers. The participation could range from the deployment of whole teams to the participation of single observers.